Life is a mashup of toys and gadgets, hobbies and recipes, kids and odd socks, all held together with love and duct tape.
This is just amazing. Amoebabloke built an antique-style R2D2 out of a wooden barrel and lots of amazingly shaped and crafted metal parts. I can’t pretend to know how he did it, or even begin to do justice to the amount of work it must have taken, but I love the result! He hopes to [...]
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First of all, let me say that this story involves throw-up. If you are averse to hearing such a story, please skip to the next post. I don’t want to make you sick! If you’re a parent, chances are you’re over it, so read on… When it comes to parenting, Hubby and I have lots [...]
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Here is a fun shirt from ThinkGeek. You can customize it by writing whatever you want in the white fields, wash it, and start over again! The marker is included. How many different combinations of noun, verb, noun can you come up with? Make it snarky or sincere, frightening or funny. Express your feelings in [...]
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Well, it won’t pass for your actual pen and paper signature, but if you want to add a little personal touch to your online writings, you might want to try this. MyLiveSignature.com has a nifty free service that lets you type in your name, choose from 120 fonts, several colors, sizes, and varying degrees of [...]
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Hello everyone! Here is a project I worked on this weekend. It combines my love of making jewelry with my love of origami. (Some of you may not know that I am half Japanese, and I love making crafty things.) I really love the florals, swirls, and geometric patterns on traditional origami paper, and I [...]
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I’ve been tagged by Holly at Everything and Anything for the Crazy Eights meme. I don’t think you really want to know that much about me. Heck, I’m not sure I can even come up with that many things, but I’ll give it a go! Maybe I’ll change this from Crazy Eights to Just Some [...]
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Darn those Girl Scouts and their Thin Mints
by GeekMom on February 23, 2008
Once a year, the Girl Scouts set up shop in the foyer of our local grocery store. They stack up boxes and boxes of cookies, put on their sashes, smiles, and best manners. I try to resist, but I just can’t! I must have the cookies! Last year, my husband mistakenly brought home some peanut [...]
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